Tiny Black And Brown Carpet Beetle

Carpet beetles are tiny black beetles that can be found in the house.

Tiny black and brown carpet beetle.

Others might be mottled with spots of brown and black on a lighter background. The adults are small 1 16 to 1 8 inch oval shaped beetles ranging in color from black to various mottled patterns of white brown yellow and orange. Carpet beetles measure just 1 16 to 1 8 inches long about the size of a pinhead and vary in color. They vary in size from 1 8 th to 3 16 th of an inch in length.

Slow moving tiny black beetles that crawl or fly around homes. The larvae are carrot shaped and long with a golden or brownish appearance. Carpet beetles in general are oval in shape and appear dark brown to black in colour. A fully grown adult black carpet beetle appears to be shiny reddish black in color with brown colored legs.

Like many other beetles they are round or oval and convex like ladybugs. They measure up to 0 1 3 mm in length. Most adult carpet beetles range from 2 mm to 5 mm in length with very short clubbed antennae and chewing mouthparts. Some are black or dark enough to appear black when observed with the human eye.

They can cause damage to natural cloth fibers or cereals. Eggs are pearly white in color and small. The furniture and varied carpet beetles also bear unique coloured scales specific to the type.